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My question :
Getting “Error while importing Curl: Please check your cURL string for malformed URL” when trying to paste as raw text by copying as cURL

Details (like screenshots) :

How I found the problem :
While copy paste curl (v9.25.1)

I’ve already tried :

Steps i tried to perform is

intercept api call from any browser->Right click on api call->copy as cURL->Go to postman(Version 9.25.1)->Import->paste as raw text
Find below cuRL which im trying to import

curl 'https://dashboard.webengage.com/user/account.html?action=forgot' -X POST -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0' -H 'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8' -H 'Accept-Language: en-GB,en;q=0.5' -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br' -H 'Referer: https://dashboard.webengage.com/user/account.html?action=viewForgot' -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' -H 'Origin: https://dashboard.webengage.com' -H 'Connection: keep-alive' -H 'Cookie: _gcl_au=1.1.1986184960.1657088792; _ga_3NGD3E18DP=GS1.1.1658399710.9.1.1658402356.40; _ga=GA1.2.1335907703.1657088792; _fbp=fb.1.1657088793592.1171718870; _lfa=LF1.1.95970d176bb673c4.1658374747421; OptanonConsent=isIABGlobal=false&datestamp=Thu+Jul+21+2022+16%3A48%3A56+GMT%2B0530+(India+Standard+Time)&version=6.17.0&hosts=&consentId=e9ac56bd-9e04-499d-9368-bdd3e08bc1fe&interactionCount=1&landingPath=https%3A%2F%2Fwebengage.com%2F&groups=C0001%3A1%2CC0002%3A1%2CC0003%3A1%2CC0004%3A1%2CC0005%3A1; AWSALB=ZbklkJFuch+wycjcXTKO9BCwzmoLZ9JbRSqg0M5wC+tgWTnEOAEMCRliCpPTbSGDYMoQx3/1Qzjpnr/phs/ZKSmI31KDz0uPAsvLpUqU9Zs0cyP5Yh7euA19wiRhUT20YWM4yBqw2ReDe3JNVMWUXxmlCQTRTnwO+meL/D4N2m5Ys4T3g9cUlWsneQPHEQ==; AWSALBCORS=ZbklkJFuch+wycjcXTKO9BCwzmoLZ9JbRSqg0M5wC+tgWTnEOAEMCRliCpPTbSGDYMoQx3/1Qzjpnr/phs/ZKSmI31KDz0uPAsvLpUqU9Zs0cyP5Yh7euA19wiRhUT20YWM4yBqw2ReDe3JNVMWUXxmlCQTRTnwO+meL/D4N2m5Ys4T3g9cUlWsneQPHEQ==; _we_a_ssid=aaaR9Idsjad9T7_-9IBiy; _gid=GA1.2.735761338.1658374750; WebKlipperAuth=jz7SgX3zBNIMPRMGg5ni; _we_us=1658399711602; __adroll_fpc=98d019a6a7383b98d97c93bac311483a-1658399802896; __ar_v4=2II4J53FLRDUBGIZDUKWME%3A20220720%3A2%7C3GK5HOPAS5HOHC3TUOQ4X3%3A20220720%3A2%7CPOFEMBENINHV3FI44SIJLG%3A20220720%3A2; _clck=6qc1e8|1|f3c|0; _clsk=1x5o9dz|1658399803906|1|1|d.clarity.ms/collect; _uetsid=acc0897008a611edabba99d25eca0ad4; _uetvid=acc0773008a611eda9d601390f5ab28e; _gat_UA-28285682-1=1; drift_campaign_refresh=fa0834fd-34c3-445d-a141-91db4634cbfa' -H 'Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1' -H 'Sec-Fetch-Dest: document' -H 'Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate' -H 'Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin' -H 'Sec-Fetch-User: ?1' -H 'TE: trailers' --data-raw 'url=&source=&authParams=&OWASP_CSRFTOKEN=UHOV-7ELJ-Z7IY-5K80-RZ1G-YAHL-AUTB-4FQC&un=pritesh.pednekar%2B6%40webengage.com&active_region=us&we_region=us'
It lets me output as curl bash and then I can import it into Postman.
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The converted curl is;
curl -X POST https://dashboard.webengage.com/user/account.html?action=forgot -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0" -H "Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8" -H "Accept-Language: en-GB,en;q=0.5" -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br" -H "Referer: https://dashboard.webengage.com/user/account.html?action=viewForgot" -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -H "Origin: https://dashboard.webengage.com" -H "Connection: keep-alive" -H "Cookie: _gcl_au=1.1.1986184960.1657088792; _ga_3NGD3E18DP=GS1.1.1658399710.9.1.1658402356.40; _ga=GA1.2.1335907703.1657088792; _fbp=fb.1.1657088793592.1171718870; _lfa=LF1.1.95970d176bb673c4.1658374747421; OptanonConsent=isIABGlobal=false&datestamp=Thu+Jul+21+2022+16%3A48%3A56+GMT%2B0530+(India+Standard+Time)&version=6.17.0&hosts=&consentId=e9ac56bd-9e04-499d-9368-bdd3e08bc1fe&interactionCount=1&landingPath=https%3A%2F%2Fwebengage.com%2F&groups=C0001%3A1%2CC0002%3A1%2CC0003%3A1%2CC0004%3A1%2CC0005%3A1; AWSALB=ZbklkJFuch+wycjcXTKO9BCwzmoLZ9JbRSqg0M5wC+tgWTnEOAEMCRliCpPTbSGDYMoQx3/1Qzjpnr/phs/ZKSmI31KDz0uPAsvLpUqU9Zs0cyP5Yh7euA19wiRhUT20YWM4yBqw2ReDe3JNVMWUXxmlCQTRTnwO+meL/D4N2m5Ys4T3g9cUlWsneQPHEQ==; AWSALBCORS=ZbklkJFuch+wycjcXTKO9BCwzmoLZ9JbRSqg0M5wC+tgWTnEOAEMCRliCpPTbSGDYMoQx3/1Qzjpnr/phs/ZKSmI31KDz0uPAsvLpUqU9Zs0cyP5Yh7euA19wiRhUT20YWM4yBqw2ReDe3JNVMWUXxmlCQTRTnwO+meL/D4N2m5Ys4T3g9cUlWsneQPHEQ==; _we_a_ssid=aaaR9Idsjad9T7_-9IBiy; _gid=GA1.2.735761338.1658374750; WebKlipperAuth=jz7SgX3zBNIMPRMGg5ni; _we_us=1658399711602; __adroll_fpc=98d019a6a7383b98d97c93bac311483a-1658399802896; __ar_v4=2II4J53FLRDUBGIZDUKWME%3A20220720%3A2%7C3GK5HOPAS5HOHC3TUOQ4X3%3A20220720%3A2%7CPOFEMBENINHV3FI44SIJLG%3A20220720%3A2; _clck=6qc1e8|1|f3c|0; _clsk=1x5o9dz|1658399803906|1|1|d.clarity.ms/collect; _uetsid=acc0897008a611edabba99d25eca0ad4; _uetvid=acc0773008a611eda9d601390f5ab28e; _gat_UA-28285682-1=1; drift_campaign_refresh=fa0834fd-34c3-445d-a141-91db4634cbfa" -H "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1" -H "Sec-Fetch-Dest: document" -H "Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate" -H "Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin" -H "Sec-Fetch-User: ?1" -H "TE: trailers" -d "url=&source=&authParams=&OWASP_CSRFTOKEN=UHOV-7ELJ-Z7IY-5K80-RZ1G-YAHL-AUTB-4FQC&un=pritesh.pednekar%2B6%40webengage.com&active_region=us&we_region=us"
              
Thanks will try this.Cannot see the option that you mentioned. May have to update chrome but I can see a copy as cURL in both firefox and chrome.

FYI I’m trying to

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copy as cURL. Find SS below
              
Hmmm, interesting.
Maybe try the link above.
Paste on the left and change the option on the right to curl/bash… see if it gives you a different output. (Also I copied the curl conversion I did of your request above, try that too).
(I don’t know much about curl, this is just what works for me).
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Not sure what broke this feature, though, it did used to work when copying the cURL command in chrome?
At least for the time-being converting to bash cURL does resolve this issue as a workaround. Ideally, this should be incorporated into the app without the need to use a third-party.
Thanks for everyones help!
User suggested Solutions require an extra step between copying from Chrome to pasting in postman, which is a bad user experience.

The whole point with using postman is to make it an easy experience.
Same curl snippet when pasted in the terminal - works as expected -

So it doesn’t seem like a problem in Chrome.
BTW for me chrome only supports copy as curl -

Attaching a screenshot
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